We've started having fresh pasta and it is so good. Dried pasta just doesn't even compare. But fresh pasta can be quite expensive and it doesn't keep forever like the dry stuff, so we don't always have it on hand. I finally tried making my own tomato sauce instead of the jarred stuff, and it just begged to be paired with fresh pasta. So we tried to make it ourselves for the first time. There is definitely room for improvement here, but it was really easy and cheap. Just egg and flour, roll it out thin (that's where we are lacking in skill and tools) and then cut it into strips.
I do want to start making my own bread, yogourt and cereal too...but one thing at a time. It's a slow process, but I think it would be totally worth it. I just have to figure out how to balance it all. Because homemade bread and yogourt is nice, but laundry piled to the ceiling, not so nice.
We got the recipe from this favourite book of mine, Classic Italian Cooking by Valentina Harris. We did the one cup of flour to one egg and it was pretty dry so we just played around with that. She does make note that all eggs and flour batches are different, so you just go with what works.
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